Posted on Jan 24, 2021
Cpl Vic Burk
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I am asking this as kind of a survey. On another forum I subscribe to there is a lot of complaining about the V. A.'s medical care.
I give my V. A. Medical Center a 9.8. I have had an overall excellent experience with them. They are very conducive to my schedule as a teacher and try to schedule my appointment as late in the afternoon whenever possible. Only once have I ever seen someone who I truly felt didn't give a crap. She was not my primary care, I was thrown in with her at the last minute when my PCP couldn't make it in that day.
Being at school to teach my students (especially a subject like math) is very important to me and I don't take off unless I absolutely have to. Once I put in for the day, I am stuck with it because they got a substitute scheduled already. At my current district I have missed on seven days in the last twelve years. Only one was for personal reasons, the rest for V. A. appointment that they had to have me there first thing in the morning.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
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9.5. I am so happy with my level of service that I have written glowing remarks on comment cards.
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SSgt Christophe Murphy
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It is all relative to the employees at the respective facility and the employee culture there. I have been out since 2012 and have received services in two different States. My experience has varied but it falls on the Hospital Staff. I currently live in Mid Missouri and the Columbia VA has been a major improvement from what I was accustomed to when I lived in San Diego. The San Diego VA was horrible. Whether I am discussing the La Jolla main Hospital, The Mission Valley location or the clinic in Escondido it was a crap experience and it was mainly because of the employees.
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Can laughing count as a number

I went to the ER once and they forgot I was in an exam room
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Cpl Vic Burk
Cpl Vic Burk
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They did that at a regular hospital with my wife a few years ago and then tried to bill us for two days in the ER because she was there overnight. We threatened lawsuit and the decided they would let us off the hook for the bill. I wanted to continue with the lawsuit, my wife didn't.
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Luckily mine was a Va hospital in Orlando, I think we were there like 10 hours? My wife was big madCpl Vic Burk
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